Wine rating Retailers will often use signage advertising wines that have received a favorable rating from critics. A wine rating is a score assigned by one or more wine critics to a wine tasted as a summary of that critic’s evaluation of that wine. A wine...
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Wine rating Retailers will often use signage advertising wines that have received a favorable rating from critics. A wine rating is a score assigned by one or more wine critics to a wine tasted as a summary of that critic’s evaluation of that wine. A wine rating is therefore a subjective quality score, typically of a numerical nature, given to a specific bottle of wine. In most cases, wine ratings are set by a single wine critic, but in some cases a rating is derived by input from several critics tasting the same wine at the same time. A number of different scales for wine ratings are in use. Also, the practices used to arrive at the rating can vary. Over the last couple of decades, the 50-100 scale introduced by Robert M. Parker, Jr. has become commonly used. This or numerically similar scales are used by publications such as Wine Enthusiast, Wine Spectator, and Wine Advocate.[1][2][3] Other publications or critics, such as Jancis Robinson and Michael Broadbent, may use a 0-20 scale, or
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